FORTUNA Quest was a project where I was gonna record 429 songs. One song everyday during 2013, one song per week in 2014 and one song each month in 2015 and post the experiences of all of them. It was uncompleted in the second year after 281 songs recorded. Here you'll find all the songs and experiences of everything that happened between 2013 and 2014. Enjoy it!

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Saturday, 21 December 2013

21st of December - Heavy Tread (355th Song)

My amp is broken and I wanted big distortions today, I didn't want to plug my guitar into the interface either, I decided just to find a funny sound to make something special.

Thoughts: Pfffff I'm so tired. I just made this song. The guitar sound is really weird, it's a default synth called Amped Synth Lead. I created this riff that I like and the bass line suits very well too. The bass is from Kontatk and I tried to find the way to automate the pitch bending of Kontakt, but the values that you can automate are called #004, #033 and numbers like that, it's a massive list and you don't know what you're touching. So I did it with the pitch bending of logic, it's easy to use but, damn, the program got crazy! Every time that I played a part the bass was sounding different, like having the pitch bending values altered and it annoyed me so much, I didn't know how to fix that or what was the reason, it started as soon as I change it, but the funny thing is that it wasn't constant, each time a different bend. In the last part I just cracked out, nothing fitted, so many notes and they were sounding different and I changed them and then it changed the pitch again. So it was difficult to continue the song and try new parts. After 3 hours I think I don't know why I heard it from top to the end (maybe the problems is something that happens because you play the song from a weird place) and it sounded cool. Time to bounce.

I like the sound of the drum kit, it's the modern drums pluggin in Kontakt, and added a big echo that sounds similar to some Deftones drums, and I enjoyed that, the drums sounding alone fills the space so good.